... until now, it is a mentally isolated, a truely [sic] colonial position, which has been occupied by the women physicians of Ame...rica. When a century shall have elapsed after general intellectual education has become diffused among women; after two or three generations have had increased opportunities for inheritance of trained intellectual aptitudes; after the work of establishing, in the face of resolute opposition, the right to privileged work in addition to the drudgeries imposed by necessity, shall have ceased to preoccupy the energies of women; after selfish monopolies of privilege and advantage shall have broken down; after the rights and capacities of women as individuals shall have received thorough, serious, and practical social recognition; when all these changes shall have been effected for about a hundred years, it will then be possible to perceive results from the admission of women to the profession of medicine, at least as widespread as those now obviously due to their admission to the profession of teaching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administer...ed with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The Apache have a legend that the coyote brought them fire and that the bear in his hibernations communes with the spirits of the ..."overworld" and later imparts the wisdom gained thereby to the medicine men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Within Western medicine, physically ill people approach medical helpers in a manner much different from the psychologically ill. P...hysically ill people bring sick bodies to physicians; emotionally ill people bring sick souls to psychotherapists. Differences in these two forms of helping are visible even in the language; the person in need of medical help is always a "patient," while the person in need of psychotherapy is often a "client." Each form of helping has a particular way of approaching the person needing help. Medical patients are treated, taken care of, and made better by the doctor. Psychotherapy clients must be actively engaged in their healing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a u...niversal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »